Guy Davies, EPSA
About the Image(s)
This was taken on a very recent one-day photo workshop in the Derbyshire Peak District in England. The workshop was aimed at photographing the extensive moorland heather in the area, and here we walked out on to the open moor above the small village of Hathersage. The heather was actually just past its best, but the sun was shining and it brought out the colours well. Heather can look deep purple under cloudy conditions but the sun seems to bring out a magenta tint. I liked this bank of heather and rocks. The rock on the skyline is known as the knucklestone, and the green on the background hillside is bracken, very common on our moorlands. Hathersage is in the valley on the right and the evening sun was on the right.
Camera was my Panasonic Lumix G9 with the Leica 12-60 lens at 12 mm. Exposure was 1/125 at f/8 and ISO 200, and the time was 7:11 pm. Back home the image was cropped and adjusted in ON1 RAW for brightness and contrast overall, and selective adjustments made to darken the sky and the background.
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Superbly composed everything flows to a point the heather in the foreground could have overpowered the shot but you have handled it superbly we are so lucky to have countryside like this to enjoy and photograph and boy have you done it justice.   Posted: 09/14/2020 15:59:13